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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the detective went on. "Miss Gertrude Innes testified that she
heard some one fumbling with the lock, that the door opened, and
that almost immediately the shot was fired. Now, Miss Innes,
here is the strange part of that. Mr. Armstrong had no key with
him. There was no key in the lock, or on the floor. In other
words, the evidence points absolutely to this: Mr. Armstrong was
admitted to the house from within."
"It is impossible," I broke in. "Mr. Jamieson, do you know what
your words imply? Do you know that you are practically
accusing Gertrude Innes of admitting that man?"
"Not quite that," he said, with his friendly smile. "In fact,
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